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On This Day - April 25

1916 E 22 (I 79) HMS E22 was on surface passage in the North Sea. At just after 1150 a torpedo fired from the German submarine UB18 struck the vessel sending her immediately to the bottom.

Of the crew of 33 only two survived having been picked up by U18 and taken as Prisoners of War. ERA F S Buckingham and Signalman W T Harrod.
1918 H 23 Completed
1918 R 1 Launched
1918 R 2 Launched
1940 Trident (N 52) HMS Trident fires two torpedoes against the German merchants Palime and Pelikan about 30 nautical miles south-west of Lindesnes, Norway. Both torpedoes missed.
1941 Upholder (N 99) HMS Upholder torpedoes and sinks the Italian Antonietta Lauro, near Kerkennah Buoy #3, Tunisia.
1941 P311 (Tutankhamen) Laid Down
1945 Sea Scout (P 253) HMS Sea Scout sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire off Sumbawa Island, Netherlands East Indies.
1956 Porpoise (S 01) Launched
1979 Trafalgar (S 107) Laid Down

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